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Compu ["For the first twentie yeeres since yesterdaie"]



Goe; and if that word haue not quite kild thee,
Eate mee with death, by biddinge mee goe too.
Oh if itt haue, may my word worke on mee
And a iust office, on a Murderer doe,
Except itt bee too late to kill mee soe
Beinge double dead; goeing, and bidding Goe.|


The Computation

For the first twentie yeeres since yesterdaie
I scarce beleeud thou couldst bee gone awaie
For fortye more I fedd on fauours past;
And fortie on hopes, that thou wouldst they might last,
Teares drownd one hvndred, and sighs, blew out two,
A thousand I did neither thinke, nor doe,
Or in A thousand more forgott that too.
Yett call not this longe life, but thinke that I
Am by being dead, Immortall; can Ghosts die.

The Prohibition

Take heed of lovinge mee;
Att least remember I forbad itt thee
Nott that it shall repaire my vnthriftie waste
Of breath, and blood, vppon thy sighs, and teares:
But soe great Ioye, our life att once out weares.
Then, least thy loue by my death, frustrate bee,
If thou loue mee, take heed of loueinge mee.[CW: Take]
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